( I )
SOME
CONSIDERATIONS
ABOUT
Witchcraft,
In a Letter to
ROBERT HUNT, Esq;
SECT. I.
SIR,
THE frequent and late dealings you have had in the Examination of Witches, and the regards of one that hath a very particular honour for you, have brought you the trouble of some CONSIDERATIONS on the Subject. And tho' what I have to say be but the unaccurate product of a little leisure; yet I hope it may afford you some, not unseasonable, Accounts of the odd Phœnomena of Witchcraft and Fascination, and contribute to the DEFENCE of the Truth, and certainty of Matters, which you know by Experiments that could not deceive, in spite of the petty exceptions of those that are resolv'd to believe nothing in affairs of this Nature.
And if any thing were to be much admired in an Age of Wonders, not only of Nature, (which is a constant Prodigy) but of Men and Manners; it would be to me matter of astonish-
